HELP Nancy Young-Wright Fight Williams' SHOCKING, DECEITFUL TACTICS

October 27, 2010

My opponent, Vic Williams just sent voters in Legislative District 26 an incredibly misleading piece of campaign mail.  In this mail piece, Vic implies that University of Arizona President Robert Shelton has endorsed his campaign.  I have learned from President Shelton that this usage by Vic's campaign was not authorized.  ( Read Shelton's statement in the Arizona Daily Star here.  )

By using President Shelton’s good name, Vic cynically endangered Shelton's position as a nonpartisan community leader and treated the University of Arizona as nothing more than a prop for his reelection.

I recognize it is a bit unusual for a candidate to display their opponent's campaign materials, but you have to see this for yourself.  Click here for a copy of this dishonest campaign mail.

In this mail piece, Vic also falsely asserts that he is a supporter of education, the Science Foundation Arizona and First Things First.  These are just further examples of Vic's willingness to say one thing in Tucson while voting the opposite way in Phoenix.

I will not stand for this dishonesty, and I hope you will not either.

Consider these other specific examples of how Vic misleads voters:

Vic says he protected Science Foundation Arizona, but he caved to his Phoenix Political Bosses and voted repeatedly to defund it in the Appropriations Committee and on the House Floor. (HB 2001, 1/29/09; SB 1002, 1/31/09; HB 2005, 3/9/10)

It took a court ruling to get Vic and his Political Bosses to restore any of Science Foundation’s funding last year. The Foundation has received no state funding this year. (Arizona Republic, 11/18/09; Arizona Daily Star, 7/1/10)

While Vic brags about protecting First Things First – a voter-approved Childrens' Health Care and Early Education program, he could have single-handedly killed the effort to repeal this program.  Instead he chose to go along with his Phoenix political bosses.

Vic voted to repeal First Things First when it came before the House Appropriations Committee, while voting against repealing it on the House floor. There was no change in the language between the committee version and the floor version.

The bottom-line is that if Vic Williams would have voted against the legislation in Committee, it would have been a 6-6 vote and thus the repeal of First Things First would have died in Committee.  (HCR 2001, Appropriations vote, 3/9/10, HCR 2001, House floor vote, 3/11/10)

Vic calls himself a supporter of public education, but voted against our kids 68% of the time according to the nonpartisan Arizona Education Network. (Arizona Education Network)
He claims he was the “go-to-legislator” for the U of A, but in Phoenix he was the Political Bosses’ go-to-guy for $1.2 billion in cuts to universities and public schools. (HB2633 5/4/09, HB2001, 3/11/10, SB1002, 11/23/09, SB1006, 1/31/09)
I believe you will be as outraged as I am at Vic's deceitful and dishonest tactics.

If you are disturbed by this behavior and lack of ethics, I need your help NOW.  We are campaigning hard down to the wire and still need contributions to fight these shocking tactics.  If you contribute online, your donation will be available for voter contact these final days of the campaign.

Also, we need volunteers.  If you able to volunteer during the last days of the campaign, we need your help.  Send us an e-mail

Finally, and most importantly, tell your friends and neighbors registered to vote in LD 26 that I am the only candidate with a proven track record of standing up for our schools and kids.

Sincerely,

Nancy



PS: The Star just posted an article about this.And here is the rest of it.